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Less-Than-Great Expectorations:
A Fan Tries to Clean Up Baseball

On baseball's opening day Tuesday, Joe Paul of Sun City, Ariz., will be stationed in front of his television, VCR rolling and paper and pen in hand, waiting for players to offend him.

''They're lawbreakers, and this is the law,'' says 76-year-old Mr. Paul, who has made it his mission to ban spitting in baseball. At the very least, he wants it abolished at the Arizona Diamondbacks' new Banc One Ballpark in Phoenix. He says the law is...